Oiazoamino compounds



Patented July 18, 1939 UNiTED STATES ?A1TENT OFFICE DIAZOAMINO Coll/[POUNDS Reunies, Etablissements Kuhlmann, Paris,

France, a corporation of France No Drawing. Application November 18, 1937, Serial No. 175,341. In Germany December 5,

6 Claims. (Cl. 260) This invention relates to water soluble aromatic derivatives of arsenic acid.

In the Journ. of the Amer. Chem. Soc. 43, p. 1632 (1921) Heidelberger and Jacobs have disclosed a process whereby diazonium salts from amino-aryl-arsonic acids may be treated with certain primary or secondary amines in absence of mineral acid, to produce diazo-amino compounds. Those diazo-amino compounds possess the disadvantage of being insoluble or only slightly soluble in cold water, and of being of a very little stability. Besides those Weak points, those compounds possess no remarkable therapeutic actions, even, in many cases, their properties do not allow their use as therapeutics.

It has been found, according to the present invention, that products which possess very interesting properties can be obtained if care is taken that the coupling compound which does not contain the arsonic acid possesses at least one sulfonic group.

Not only the solubility of the new products is greatly increased, but also their stability. The obtained diazo-amino compounds are yellow crystals; they can easily be obtained chemically pure. They are very stable in dry state as well as in neutral or alkaline solution, and they are readily soluble even in cold water. The aqueous solutions are neutral on litmus paper. Mineral organic or inorganic acids split the diazo-amino compounds readily in diazotized amino-phenylarsonic acid and in the aromatic amine which has been used for stabilization. By injection into warm blooded animal-bodies or by oral administration of the neutral or slightly alkaline solutions of the diazoamino compound, an arsanil-azo-protein is obtained in the body. The treated animals do not show any poisoning signs neither any irritation.

Those diazoamino compounds may be used for the preparation of arsonic containing colours. A mixture of the diazo-amino compound with one of the coupling components which are used in the azo-dyes (ice color) industry in solution or in solid state, does not show any reaction, but when acidified and heated its solution with acetic acid gives the correspondent arsonic containing azo dye.

It is possible for instance to put the diazonium salts of the aminoarylarsonic acids into reaction with aromatic amines of the formula 52 N112 Y in which X is a member of the group consisting of COOH, SOsI-I, SOzH and Ya member of the group consisting of COOH, SOsH, SOzH, Hal,

alcoyl, aryl, alcoxy and aryloxy, at least one of.

the two substituents being a sulfonic group, in

a solution which can be of acetic acidity until neutral.

The same products can be obtained by reacting diazonium salts of the following formula:

QNH:

with amino-arylarsonic acids.

acids in presence of mineral acid 'bindingcompounds with secondary aliphatic or mixed aliphatic-aromatic amines of the following for,

mula:

OHi-X X being a member of the group consisting of H,

Some examples of carrying out the invention,

are described hereafter;

Example 1 5.86 gr. of sodium salt ofp-amino-phenyb arsonic acid are dissolved in 500 com. normal HCl. kept at 0 0. there is added to the solution, by

small amounts and under stirring,,20' ccm.' ofj a normal sodium nitrite solution. The diazoni um solution thus obtained is .poured s1ow1y, round .5 0., in a neutral solution .Of 4.52 .81.; 01

It is also possible. to put intoreaction diazotized amino-arylar'sonic The temperature of the solution: being in one hour by addition of alcohol.

6-amino-3-sulfobenzoic acid in 50 ccm. water to which has been added previously 7 gr. of crystallized sodium acetate. The mixture is stirred during 2 hours and then is added dilute sodium carbonate solution until the solution is neutral against litmus paper. After one half hour the solution is heated up to 50 C. and there is added NaCl to obtain a 20% solution. By cooling to 0 C., the sodium salt of the Z-carboxy-l-sulfodiazo-amino-benzene-l'-arsonic acid precipitates in small crystals, which are filtrated Washed with a saturated NaCl solution and dried under vacuum at 50-60 C. The equation is as follows:

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HO C1 COOH HO 2.17 gr. of m-amino-phenyl-arsonic acid are dissolved in 30 com. water, and after an addition of 15 com. hydrochloric acid the solution is diazotized at 0 C. with 10 com. of a N-sodium nitrite solution. The obtained solution is then poured at 6 C. in a neutral solution of 2.2 gr.

:zof 4-sulfo-2-amino-benzoic acid, to which has been previously added 2 gr. of sodium acetate. After 2 hours stirring the solution is neutralized by addition of dilute sodium carbonate solution, and the diazoamino compound is precipitated The product thus obtained is centrifuged washed by absolute alcohol and dried under vacuum at 50 C.

The equation is as follows:

The same product can be obtained by condensing diazotized 2-amino-4-sulfobenzoic acid with m.-amino-phenyl-arsonic acid to a diazo-aminocompound.

Example 3 2.17 gr. p-amino-phenyl-arsonic acid are diazotized as described and the diazonium solution is poured under stirring at 5 C. in an aque- 1 ous solution containing 2.81 gr. anilin-disulfonic acid- (2.5), 1 gr. calcined sodium carbonate and 2 gr. sodium acetate. After two or three hours of stirring the mixture is neutralized by addition of sodium bicarbonate, after two other hours of stirring the solution is evaporated at 40-50 C.

to dryness. The compound thus obtained is easily soluble and contains with a quantitative yield the sodium salt of the 2.5-disulfonic-diazo-amino-benzene-4='-arsonic acid.

The equation is as follows:

sour HO H What we claim is:

1. Process for the manufacture of diazo-amino compounds by diazotizing an amine and condensing the product obtained in a medium Which must not be strongly acid with another amine which does not contain a phenolic OH group, the one amine being an aniline arsonic acid and the other amine being a member of the group consisting of primary and secondary amines containing at least one sulfonic acid group.

2. Process for the manufacture of diazo-amino compounds by diazotizing an amine and condensing the product obtained in a medium which must not be strongly acid with another amine which does not contain a phenolic OH group,

the one amine being an aniline arsonic acid and the other amine being a primary amine of the benzene series containing at least one sulfonic group.

3. Process for the manufacture of diazo-amino compounds by diazotizing an amine and condensing the product obtained in a medium which must not be strongly acid with another amine which does not contain a phenolic OH group, the one amine being an aniline arsonic acid and the other amine being a secondary amine of the benzene series containing at least one sulfonic group.

1. Process for the manufacture of diazo-amino compounds by diazotizing an aminophenylarsonic acid and condensing the product obtained in a medium which must not be strongly acid with aromatic amines of the general formula in which X is a member of the group consisting of hydrogen, 0001-1 and SOsI-I.

5. Process for the manufacture of diazo-amino compounds by condensing an aminophenylarsonic acid with diazotized aromatic amines of the general formula:

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in which X is a member of the group consisting of hydrogen, COOH and SOsH.

6. The products of the general formula 

